Countries / Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Kuwait

Name: Kuwait
Address: KW

Kuwait's cloud rules require sensitive data classes to be hosted in-country, and both Google and Microsoft have announced an intent to open regions there.

The regulator CITRA issued a cloud computing framework and a four-level data classification in 2021; it licenses cloud providers hosting level 3 and 4 data only if hosted in Kuwait, and requires prior authorisation to move subscriber data abroad (Reported). Google Cloud announced in January 2023 its intent to open a Kuwait region, and Microsoft announced in March 2025 an intent to establish an Azure region in Kuwait City (both Primary, provider pages). Neither page gives a launch date and we did not confirm either region is live. A national AI strategy is described by a law-firm digest as forthcoming (Reported).

AI policy and activity

A Legal 500 contribution says a forthcoming strategy would create a steering committee across CAIT, CITRA, the National Cybersecurity Center and others, and that CAIT and CITRA are running a Microsoft programme including AI-enabled data centres. We did not find the strategy itself.

Power and grid

No power, grid or renewable document for Kuwait was read in this pass, so none is stated.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
Google Cloud region in Kuwait Google Cloud	Kuwait (site not stated)	Planned	Primary. Google Cloud press release of 5 January 2023: intends to set up a local office and invest in opening a cloud region in Kuwait as part of an alliance with the Government of Kuwait. No launch date given. We did not confirm it is live. (source)
Microsoft Azure region in Kuwait Microsoft	Kuwait City	Planned	Primary. Microsoft news release of 6 March 2025: intent to establish an AI-powered Azure region, with CAIT and CITRA as government partners. No launch date or capacity given. We did not confirm it is live. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
CITRA cloud computing regulatory framework and data classification (Resolution 95 of 2021) Read the cited source	Law	In force from 21 September 2021	Reported. Al Tamimi digest: four classification levels, in-country hosting for levels 3 and 4 as a licensing condition, prior authorisation for transfer of subscriber data abroad, and registration of PaaS and SaaS providers before contracting with the public sector. The date is the issue date given by the digest. We did not read the resolution.
National AI strategy (forthcoming) Read the cited source	Policy	Proposed	Reported. Legal 500 contribution describes a forthcoming strategy with a High-Level Steering Committee. We found no adopted text or date.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Kuwait: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/kuwait

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_kuwait,
  title        = {Kuwait: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0054}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0054},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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